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Greg Hollimon is a Actor American born on 2 may 1956 at Chicago (USA)
Greg Hollimon (born May 2, 1956) is an actor best known for his work on Comedy Central's Strangers with Candy.
Hollimon grew up in the Chicago housing projects of Cabrini–Green, growing up alongside Ozone from Breakin'. In 1986, he began taking improvisation classes at Players Workshop, where he met Paul Dinello and, some time later, Amy Sedaris. Hollimon then began doing stand-up at a few local comedy clubs and dabbled in comedy writing, while honing his craft of improvisation at Players Workshop.
Hollimon graduated from Players Workshop in 1988 and enrolled in classes at Chicago's famed The Second City. While still taking classes, he was hired into Second City's National Touring Company, where he met Stephen Colbert. A year later, Sedaris, Dinello, Colbert & Hollimon were all touring together, performing nightly improvisational theatre at colleges & universities all over America.
After leaving Second City in 1993, he then wrote and performed in a two-man play called The RIC Show-Revelations, Indictments and Confessions with his friend and fellow actor Michael McCarthy. They performed the play to rave reviews at the Dublin Theater Festival and eventually staged the show in Los Angeles where it garnered similar accolades.
When the play closed, Hollimon returned to Chicago to work in the theater. He performed in plays, including Eugene Lee's East Texas Hot Links and Pearl Cleage's Flying West." He then moved on to film, appearing in Stephen Gyllenhaal's Losing Isaiah and Richard Pearce's A Family Thing.
Sedaris, Dinello, and Colbert created the role of Principal Blackman with Hollimon in mind for the Strangers with Candy TV series. Blackman's deep, oratorial speaking style is actually quite different from Hollimon's actual speaking voice. The second season Strangers DVD contains video of the cast's appearance at The Museum of Television and Radio; during this appearance Colbert imitates Blackman, describing his "hubris and overweening pride." (A line that's actually a Blackman quote about Jerri Blank.) Hollimon objected to the imitation, insisting that he didn't sound like that, but Colbert assured him that he did. The same DVD also features a commentary track where it is revealed that Hollimon is a very skilled rollerskater, so Sedaris, Dinello, and Colbert incorporated this talent into the show.
Hollimon's profile on the Strangers with Candy movie website offers an update on his current whereabouts: "When Hollimon is not performing or auditioning for a new project, he can be found waiting for his agent to call, or at the bottom of the ocean - scuba diving in the warmer waters of the Atlantic (ahem) hoping that his agent will call."
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Hollimon grew up in the Chicago housing projects of Cabrini–Green, growing up alongside Ozone from Breakin'. In 1986, he began taking improvisation classes at Players Workshop, where he met Paul Dinello and, some time later, Amy Sedaris. Hollimon then began doing stand-up at a few local comedy clubs and dabbled in comedy writing, while honing his craft of improvisation at Players Workshop.
Hollimon graduated from Players Workshop in 1988 and enrolled in classes at Chicago's famed The Second City. While still taking classes, he was hired into Second City's National Touring Company, where he met Stephen Colbert. A year later, Sedaris, Dinello, Colbert & Hollimon were all touring together, performing nightly improvisational theatre at colleges & universities all over America.
After leaving Second City in 1993, he then wrote and performed in a two-man play called The RIC Show-Revelations, Indictments and Confessions with his friend and fellow actor Michael McCarthy. They performed the play to rave reviews at the Dublin Theater Festival and eventually staged the show in Los Angeles where it garnered similar accolades.
When the play closed, Hollimon returned to Chicago to work in the theater. He performed in plays, including Eugene Lee's East Texas Hot Links and Pearl Cleage's Flying West." He then moved on to film, appearing in Stephen Gyllenhaal's Losing Isaiah and Richard Pearce's A Family Thing.
Sedaris, Dinello, and Colbert created the role of Principal Blackman with Hollimon in mind for the Strangers with Candy TV series. Blackman's deep, oratorial speaking style is actually quite different from Hollimon's actual speaking voice. The second season Strangers DVD contains video of the cast's appearance at The Museum of Television and Radio; during this appearance Colbert imitates Blackman, describing his "hubris and overweening pride." (A line that's actually a Blackman quote about Jerri Blank.) Hollimon objected to the imitation, insisting that he didn't sound like that, but Colbert assured him that he did. The same DVD also features a commentary track where it is revealed that Hollimon is a very skilled rollerskater, so Sedaris, Dinello, and Colbert incorporated this talent into the show.
Hollimon's profile on the Strangers with Candy movie website offers an update on his current whereabouts: "When Hollimon is not performing or auditioning for a new project, he can be found waiting for his agent to call, or at the bottom of the ocean - scuba diving in the warmer waters of the Atlantic (ahem) hoping that his agent will call."
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, 1h30Origin USA
Genres Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Robert Englund, Dana DeLorenzo, Greg Hollimon, Tim Kazurinsky, T. J. Jagodowski, Susan Messing
Roles Robert the Cop
Rating51%
Brothers Marion (Mike Bradecich) and Jarmon (John LaFlamboy) have inherited a run-down apartment building. Dealing with their tenants and maintaining the building are the least of their concerns as they soon find that a mole man (Justin DiGiacomo) has taken up residence in the basement and is devouring people one by one.
, 48minutesDirected by R. Kelly
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Crime
Themes Musical films
Actors R. Kelly, LeShay Tomlinson, Michael K.Williams, Rebecca Field, Erika Ringor, Will Oldham
Roles Det. Tom
Rating64%
Chapter 13 The chapter initially starts with Sylvester and Twan in Sylvester's car though it is not clear at first where they are going. When Sylvester tells Twan to be on his best behavior and reminds Twan about how he got sent to jail, Twan says it "was because of Roxanne and that bitch Tina", which Sylvester remembers his wife mentioning their names on chapter five. The scene soon cuts to Rosie the nosy neighbor and her husband Randolph (played by R. Kelly), who argue over Rosie spying on other neighbors. The argument ends when the scene cuts back to Sylvester explaining to Twan that he has to collect money from someone, he tells Twan to leave the car in drive and be on the lookout and enters a restaurant. An hour goes by with no sign of Sylvester.
Strangers with Candy (2006)
, 1h37Directed by Paul Dinello
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Dan Hedaya, Joseph Cross, Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Deborah Rush, Maria Thayer
Roles Principal Blackman (as Gregory Holliman)
Rating58%
Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris), a 46-year-old former high school dropout and self-described "junkie whore", is released from prison and returns to her childhood home. She discovers her mother has died, her father, Guy (Dan Hedaya), has remarried to the hateful Sara Blank (Deborah Rush), and she has an arrogant half-brother Derrick (Joseph Cross). To make matters worse, her father is in a "stress-induced coma". Taking the suggestion of the family doctor (Ian Holm) literally, Jerri decides to pick her life back up where she left it, beginning her high school all over again as a freshman at Flatpoint High.
, 1h31Directed by R. Kelly
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Crime
Actors LeShay Tomlinson, R. Kelly, Michael K.Williams, Rebecca Field, Erika Ringor, Will Oldham
Roles Det. Tom
Rating0%
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Losing Isaiah (1995)
, 1h51Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal, Kasi Lemmons
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, David Strathairn, Jacqueline Brookes, Cuba Gooding Jr., Marc John Jefferies
Roles Tenement Man
Rating63%
Khaila Richards (Halle Berry) is a drug addict who is addicted to crack cocaine. The film starts with her breastfeeding her baby in an abandoned squat. As she lays the child down to leave, the other squatters tell her that she can't leave the baby there crying. Khaila takes the child outside and hides him in a box in the trash so that she can go get high. She promises to come back, puts a board over the box, and leaves. The next morning, the trash is being collected and everything is thrown in the garbage truck, but at the last moment the workers see the baby lying in the box and the infant is taken to the hospital.
The Fugitive (1993)
, 2h10Directed by Andrew Davis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Prison films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Films about disabilities, Films about capital punishment, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Jeroen Krabbé, Joe Pantoliano, Sela Ward, Julianne Moore
Roles Skating Orderly
Rating77%
Dr. Richard Kimble, a prominent Chicago vascular surgeon, arrives home to find his wife Helen fatally wounded by a one-armed man. Kimble struggles with the killer but he escapes. The lack of evidence of a break-in, Helen's lucrative life insurance policy, and a misunderstood 9-1-1 call result in Kimble's conviction of first-degree murder. Being transported to death row by bus, his fellow prisoners attempt an escape. The pandemonium sends the bus down a ravine and into the path of an oncoming train. Kimble escapes the collision and flees. Deputy U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard and his colleagues Renfro, Biggs, Newman and Poole arrive at the crash site and begin the search for Kimble. Kimble sneaks into a hospital to treat his wounds and alter his appearance. He eludes the authorities, but Gerard corners him at the edge of a storm drain over a dam. Kimble leaps into the raging water and escapes.